THE SHEPHERD KINGS OF EGYPT. 263 



recoi'd may enable us to discover the genealogies of his at present 

 unknown line. 



Thrace had an ancient king, Eusorus, who is Ashchur. Neaera, 

 wife of Strymon, who is father of Astraeus, is Naarah, mother of 

 Achashtari, Strymon itself being derived from the latter rather than 

 from any name of his father. Acessamenus, in whose family appear 

 Periboea, Axion and Asteropaeus, is Aclmzam. He is also the 

 Agassamenus of Diodorus, who succeeded Butes npon the throne of 

 the Thracians, and who married Pancratia, daughter of Aloeits. 

 Strabo has well set forth the geographical connections of Thrace and 

 the Troade, a region the names of which have been already thoroughly 

 identified with those of the Ashchurites.^^ The Satrae, Odomanti, 

 Moesi and Sapaei represent the descendants of Achashtari, Temeni, 

 Mesha and Ziph. The Hebrus may commemorate Hepher, and the 

 range of Haemus, Ammon, while Zerynthus recalls Zereth. All the 

 names of the family of Tekoa may be found in this remarkable but 

 comparatively unhistorical ' region. Scy thia, the land of the Sucath- 

 ites, presents many interesting connections with Thrace in its geo- 

 graphical and, where these survive, historical names. These are links 

 to bind Celtic and Greek traditions together to the common Ashchur- 

 ite foundation. 



Italy. — iEsar, the Etruscan divinity, the Ausar of Eti-uria, the 

 Isar in Northern Italy, and the Oscan people, are derived from the 

 name of the father of Tekoa. Ischia, one of the Pithecussae in which 

 part of the fable of Typhon is laid, presents Ashchur and Abi Tekoa 

 in relation to Ziph. Tages, who has been identified or at least united 

 with Thoth, Sydyk, Teutates and Casmillus, and the ass's head of 

 whose worship denotes the ass of Sheth, is a form of Tekoa or 

 Tegeates. Neriene, whose trumpet feast is that of Athene Salpinx, 

 is Naarali, whose husband's city, Tekoa, designates a trumpet blast. 

 The two words Socrus and Nurus originated with Ashchur and his 

 wife. Picus, the son of Saturn, who left Hermes as his successor, 

 although, as the woodpecker, he is represented by Cos or Chons in 

 the Egyptian Pantheon, at times designates Achuzam, whom we have 

 found to be represented by Bochus and Bacchus. Pecus is a name of 

 Thoth. He is also Jupiter Pixius, who is the same as Semo Sancus, 

 the Egyptian Sem. Cacus and Acestes of Segesta are other names 



28 Strabon. Geog. xiii. 1, 21. 



